Ugly Canada 2 (Only architecture, planning and design faux pas) - Page 365

niwell · #**7281** Posted **Mar 15, 2024, 8:23 PM**

^Gonna guess they didn't pull a permit for that one!

MolsonExport · #**7282** Posted **Mar 15, 2024, 8:48 PM**

Just seeing that glass mansion monstrosity has made me turn partly into stone.

O-tacular · #**7283** Posted **Mar 15, 2024, 9:42 PM**

It's truly the worst DIY reno I have ever seen. Like Homer Simpson built it.

Wigs · #**7284** Posted **Mar 16, 2024, 7:22 PM**

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Originally Posted by niwell

^Gonna guess they didn't pull a permit for that one!

wowzers what an ugly, shoddily constructed addition

megadude · #**7285** Posted **Mar 18, 2024, 1:21 AM**

Don't feel like watching the video. Was that office one actually built as a house or was it an office first? Regardless, given the decor, that would take many millions to renovate to make it attractive to live or work in. Unless there was a massive discount in the price to live in or in lease rates to tenants. The US has tonnes of office buildings like this in tonnes of smaller places like Branson or big city suburbs where they are really struggling now to fill with tenants. Canadian landlords for offices that aren't Class A don't exactly have it easy now either.

As for that DIY addition, that must be from a prank show. Like the owner got duped into a contractor with a reality show that volunteered to do the work and told them to go away for the weekend while they did it, only to return and be mortified. Then the contractor says just kidding, you got pranked! We'll do it for real next time. Kind of like when James Corden unveiled the new Beckham statue in LA to Beckham himself. It's just that bad. And yeah, very much seems like DIY, no permit.

https://www.businessinsider.com/jame...k-video-2019-3

megadude · #**7286** Posted **Mar 18, 2024, 1:28 AM**

Drove by this in Oakville today. It's just so souless. Neighbourhood is a mix of modest bungalows and new mcmansions. This stuck out like a sore thumb.

What stood there before was an extremely plain bungalow but on a nice lot. The developer gets carte blanche and that's what they came up with. I approached from the side and I was thinking, is that an actual house or an empty house built for a movie set that they are going to take down after shooting?

Arrdeeharharharbour · #**7287** Posted **Mar 26, 2024, 5:21 PM**

Taste is subjective but I don't even want to see this while driving by it let alone come home to it every night.

Screenshot 2024-03-26 1.09.27 PM by AJ Forsythe, on Flickr

Screenshot 2024-03-26 1.11.57 PM by AJ Forsythe, on Flickr

theman23 · #**7288** Posted **Mar 26, 2024, 6:32 PM**

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Originally Posted by Arrdeeharharharbour

Taste is subjective but I don't even want to see this while driving by it let alone come home to it every night.

Screenshot 2024-03-26 1.09.27 PM by AJ Forsythe, on Flickr

Chasing after that Ontario money.

Acajack · #**7289** Posted **Mar 26, 2024, 6:39 PM**

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Originally Posted by Arrdeeharharharbour

Taste is subjective but I don't even want to see this while driving by it let alone come home to it every night.

Screenshot 2024-03-26 1.09.27 PM by AJ Forsythe, on Flickr

Screenshot 2024-03-26 1.11.57 PM by AJ Forsythe, on Flickr

And they multiply like rabbits, so it seems!

https://www.google.com/maps/@44.7058...8192?entry=ttu

Wigs · #**7290** Posted **Mar 26, 2024, 7:55 PM**

A whole neighborhood of this shite for close to $800,000

I just think of Neil Young's classic

Saw it on the tube (net)
Bought it on the phone
Now you're home alone
It's a piece of crap

• Video Link

Do better Nova Scotia

MolsonExport · #**7291** Posted **Mar 26, 2024, 9:23 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by Arrdeeharharharbour

Taste is subjective but I don't even want to see this while driving by it let alone come home to it every night.

Screenshot 2024-03-26 1.09.27 PM by AJ Forsythe, on Flickr

Screenshot 2024-03-26 1.11.57 PM by AJ Forsythe, on Flickr

Looks the same as, and is more expensive than, this:

Welcome to Nickelbackland. Where everything looks the same (and every song sounds the same).

905er · #**7292** Posted **Mar 26, 2024, 9:45 PM**

Ok, so I did a street view of those Bedford homes. It's not THAT bad.. individually i can appreciate what they were trying to do, but as a whole community of homes that perfectly resemble one another, it's a bit much. Very repetitive. The lack of mature trees certainly doesn't help, giving it that storage warehouse vibe.. BUT these could have been far worse.

Architype · #**7293** Posted **Mar 27, 2024, 12:38 AM**

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Originally Posted by Arrdeeharharharbour

Taste is subjective but I don't even want to see this while driving by it let alone come home to it every night.

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Screenshot 2024-03-26 1.11.57 PM by AJ Forsythe, on Flickr

That's pretty much the worst dystopian thing I've ever seen, what were they thinking?

Is this from the George Orwell school of architecture, the dream of living in a warehouse in an industrial park, a total lack of domesticity, and windows.

Wigs · #**7294** Posted **Mar 27, 2024, 3:03 AM**

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Originally Posted by 905er

Ok, so I did a street view of those Bedford homes. It's not THAT bad...

What are you seeing that the rest of us aren't?
It's a f****** $800,000 abomination, an assault on the eyes, soul sucking street from a dystopian Hollywood movie

Loco101 · #**7295** Posted **Mar 27, 2024, 3:14 AM**

I think I'll stick to my $900 monthly mortgage! They look like truck loading docks!!

theman23 · #**7296** Posted **Mar 27, 2024, 3:28 AM**

I don't mind the square facade, but the mishmash of styles and overall cheapness to go along with the $800,000 price tag is off putting. A lot of new developments in this country are like that, a hodge podge of traditional materials and styles mashed together with something more modern (usually cheaper). It's just so incoherent and obviously a way to cheap out on brick or stone cladding, but people still seem to buy this stuff probably because they're just grateful to be able to buy house.

This neighbourhood in Chelsea is another example where I think they would have been better off if they just stuck with the cheaper synthetic cladding material for the entire house. Apologies to anyone who lives here, I'm sure they're very nice houses to live in:

jonny24 · #**7297** Posted **Mar 27, 2024, 12:35 PM**

What's with the lack of eave overhangs? I learned in school that they're important for keeping snow and rain away from the top-of-wall interfaces that are a common water intrusion point, as well as useful for managing sun/shade and maybe a couple other reasons.

O-tacular · #**7298** Posted **Mar 28, 2024, 9:10 PM**

What's worse than fugly California style McMansions from the 90's? Repainted and renovated ones.

If there's one era of homes that is unsalvageable it is these.

https://www.google.com/maps/@51.0236...8192?entry=ttu

https://www.google.com/maps/@51.0238...8192?entry=ttu

Whatchu lookin' at?!

https://www.google.com/maps/@51.0268...8192?entry=ttu

Cyclops:

https://www.google.com/maps/@51.0271...8192?entry=ttu

The weirdest and ugliest proportions:

https://www.google.com/maps/@51.0259...8192?entry=ttu

The street presence....

https://www.google.com/maps/@51.0244...8192?entry=ttu

https://www.google.com/maps/@51.0267...8192?entry=ttu

Wigs · #**7299** Posted **Mar 29, 2024, 1:36 AM**

Would Signal Hill Hiker live in Signal Hill, Calgary?

Like the Neil Young song
"piece of crap" faux California Frankenhauses

Architype · #**7300** Posted **Mar 29, 2024, 1:47 AM**

What is this space for?

https://maps.app.goo.gl/ZUCHAgCEPQGSaUun6